Medal Pars Universal Exposition; Eugénie

Features

Location	France
Issuing entity	Massonnet Éditeur
Emperor	Napoleon III (Napoléon III) (1852-1870)
Type	Commemorative medals › Exhibition, fair and festival medals
Year	1855
Composition	Copper
Weight	11.5 g
Diameter	28 mm
Shape	Round
Technique	Milled
Orientation	Medal alignment ↑↑
Number	N# 330797

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Commemorative issue

Paris World's Fair of 1855 Automatically translated

Obverse

Head on the left of the Empress Eugenie, her hair tied in a bun. Automatically translated

Script: Latin

Lettering:
EUGÉNIE IMPÉRATRICE
CAQUÉ F.
E. DE NIEUWERKERKE DIREXIT

Engraver: Armand Auguste Caqué

Reverse

Allegory of France, draped in the antique style, sitting in the middle of the attributes of science and technology, distributing a crown and a medal of the Legion of Honor. Automatically translated

Script: Latin

Lettering:
EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE
1855
MASSONNET ÉDITEUR

Engraver: Armand Auguste Caqué

Edge

Smooth with punch. Automatically translated

Script: Latin

Lettering: CUIVRE

Comments

Edition de médailles C. Massonnet fils: 19, rue Guénégaud, Paris

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
1855

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